Dr. Koka is a native of Romford, Essex, United Kingdom. Dr. Koka received his D.D.S. and M.S. in Prosthodontics from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, his M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management, his M.A.S. in Population Health Management from Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health, and his Ph.D. in Medical Science from the University of Nebraska. He had his postdoctoral research fellowship in signal transduction at the Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. A diplomate of the American Board of Prosthodontics and a Fellow and Regent of the American College of Dentists and the Academy of Prosthodontics, Dr. Koka has received numerous Outstanding Teacher of the Year awards and the Margaret L. A. MacVicar Award from the MIT Alumni Association. He brings a wealth of wisdom from a variety of life and work experiences. Sree has owned a private practice, worked in a hospital setting (Mayo Clinic) and in academics (University of Nebraska, University of Michigan, UCLA, Loma Linda University, University of Mississippi). He has given more than 180 invited presentations at national and international dentistry meetings and is the author or coauthor of 105 articles in peer-reviewed professional publications, nine book chapters and 31 abstracts.